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  • From: "tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] archives
  • Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 23:27:52 +0000

I also have not had any luck with the archive "search" feature. I thought the problem was my poor computer skills for anything non-intuitive/not user-friendly. I've had more fun success just picking a month and having it sort by topic, or is it "subject"? You get the month's topics in an alphabetical scroll; unfortunately the titles of emails don't always cleanly match their contents. A secondary sorting would be by date, and then your topic of interest found by the first sorting may have related messages near or on the same date.

Is there an easier way?


----Original Message Follows----
From: "William A. Grimes" <
To: nafex@
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] archives
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0800

While I am sympathetic to the comments concerning people not first searching the archives, I must report that in my opinion the archive search is practically useless. Case in point:

Last week I posted a question concerning two varieties of cherries, Dyehouse and an unknown white cherry that grew in or around Blyth, Ontario 30 years ago. Since I got no response to my post, I went to the archives and did a search on "white" and "cherry". Nothing found. I then changed the search to "cherry". Still nothing for "cherry" or "cherries". Am I to assume that the subject of growing cherries has never come up in NAFEX? Or is it that the search only goes against the subject text and no one ever used cherry as the subject? I guess my question is, how does one use the archives effectively?


William A. Grimes
San Francisco, CA

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